today. i think one of the things that commissioner wynns always reminds me that is left out of this conversation i think is so important and i hope that she will correct my numbers if i get these wrong, but over the last 10 years the san francisco unified's actual budget has slung by 20 percent. it's gone from $500 million dollars to $400 million dollars. well, the city has run a budget deficit, its actual budget dollars have increased in the same time frame. its expenses have gone up faster than its revenues have, but at san francisco unified the actual dollars have gone down while expenses and pension obligations continue to rise. so i think it's an incredible thing that the voters of san francisco have 100 percent of the time supported local funding for our public schools and for our children and that

the only place that there ever seems to be a debate as to whether there's an appropriate use of local funds, of the city funds for public schools is inside this chamber. the voters have already spoken and that 100 percent of the time we support these local funds. and so i think that that's a really important distinction that is not spoken about enough, is that the two different budgets. from a very high level point of view talking about prop h and the children's fund, i think the voters will once again 100 percent reauthorize both of them. i think there's an opportunity to really concentrate on creating an amazing policy that could be nationally recognized as state of the art and i think that that is really where we should be intending a lot of our time and energy. thank you. >> thank you, mr. david.

>> hello, my name is chelsea from coleman advocates for children and youth. i want to thank the committee for pulling together this hearing. this conversation is really helpful that it is happening kind of in a transparent way and engaging folks. i know it got pushed back an hour and a half so i know there ares on folks who wanted to stay and weren't able to. coleman advocates is really committed to the reauthorization of these funds and protecting the investment in children and families. coleman along with margaret broadman decided to work closely with the process laura and maria laid out to engage community in these issues. the issue around in kind services, for instance, is actually concerning in terms of the double counting issue but we knee there are going to be dozens of those coming up and looking forward to diving in deep so i wanted to thank you all. >> are there any other members that would like to speak on

this item? seeing none, closing public comment. commissioner wynns. >> thanks. for the listening public we should say we interchangiblely use the term piece, the public education fund, and prop h >> thank you for the clarification. >> miss moran >> i wanted to mention we're really excited once we do the design with our stake holder council, which is from all the different groups, we're going to have a number of city-wide meetings and focus groups. there's going to be lots ever opportunities to get folks involved and have that rich conversation across school board members and service providers. we hope everybody will come out and join these

meetings and also come out may 3rd if you want to join the rallying cry and get it started. >> who is going to be chairing these meetings? >> we selected someone who has some history with us and they are going to be working with maria sue and i and the stake holder council. we want people who are representing the dicht stake holder groups to help us design the process. so, for example, the community coalition will have 4 seats on that stake holder council, we'll have the pta and parents for public schools involved so we're going to really co-design that process but we wanted to have the technical support of an external facilitator so that all of us could engage in the conversation and that we could have one group capturing all the data as we go so we can get some good reports that we can share around all these questions. >> who is the facilitator? >> i'm not sure we, i don't

think we can say it yet. we interviewed 4 different groups, there was an rfp put out and we should be able to announce that the next day or two. >> how are you funding this facilitation process? >> external funding. >> in kind (laughing). >> i want to reiterate what commissioner wynns and avalos said. historically both of these measures did come from the community, was initiated outside city hall. so as much as i can i think we should really honor that process and i think involving the community is incredibly important in many ways because they will be the ones passing all of these ballot measures, both of these ballot measures. so i hope that we can keep that in mind and now that it's a reauthorization not make it too kind of city hall centered. the second question i had was how we would involve members of

the board, either board, in that process as well so we can be engaged in that discussion. >> for our board this is something that we will be angendizing on what we call our committee of the whole where we can talk about things, you know, not in a formal board meeting but have more of a dialogue about that and get input. we can also bring things back to this group and maybe you can talk about the city side. >> well, for dcyf, we have a citizen advisory committee and we are engaging them, particularly the may 3rd event. we're hoping some of our cac members would be able to be there so they can also learn about both funds. i would be more than happy to come back to this committee or to meet with supervisors and commissioners individually and find out how we can work together. >> i think it would be good to reach out to members of our

board as well to see if any of us are interested in engaging in that conversation or at least having at least one one on one with dcyf, i know i would like to be engaged in this process, i have a lot of thoughts and feedback as well. hopefully i can engage too. i think there are a number of things that have come up in this committee. i will keep this item to the call of the chair so maybe we can hold this hearing from time to time since it's something we are proposing to put on the ballot next year. i think it's a good way for us to engage member s of the public and it's a good way for us to have a conversation piece. the last thing i will say about the in kind services, hopefully we can have a greater conversation around that. i actually understand now from the controller that we did not specify the source of funding. i guess my concern is so much of the children's fund could be

considered new funding for our schools and i think that's my main concern. when the puc or department of environment funds a staff person i don't think there's the same kind of public concern that anything the puc funds and anything the doe funds could be considered additional funding for our schools. but the children's fund is a large fund and i'd hate to see 7 million, 8 million, the maximum amount be considered new funding for the schools. i don't think that was the intent of the voters but i also understand we didn't specify that in the original prop h language and i look forward to having discussion around that. are there any other closing comments? all right, seeing none, can we take a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair? we have a motion, we can take that without objection. madam clerk, are there any other announcements? seeing

none, the meeting is adjourned. thank you for your patience in sticking around. (meeting adjourned). mayor lee is here with us today. i think it's very appropriate to reflect what we are celebrating here on the immense responsibilities that he and the administration have.

mayor lee, i know i speak for all of us in expressing our deep gratitude for everything you company and your administration does for taking on these dramatic responsibilities. it's mind-boggling for the things they has to anticipate and prepare and the immense responsibilities that he has to take. i would like to thank him and his entire administration for taking care of this great business. [ applause ] i'm the chief investment officer, now it's my pleasure to welcome you all here for the official ground breaking of 350

mission. it's appropriate that we look forward here and we do celebrate this. the ground break ing in one sense represents architecture that is going to be added to san francisco already iconic skyline. it's a celebration of san francisco once again setting the standard for exceptional livable urban environments. i don't know if standing here today is hard to conceive that san francisco is the urban environment here on the west coast. one reason it's hard to conceive how dense it is is because san francisco is ahead of the curve of making it a transit system. we have a simple subway to follow. san francisco is going to continue

to lead the way forward both on transportation and on sustainable urban environments. without question we are going to see these forward looking transit projects continue to propel the economics projects of the city and it's live ability and vitality. what we are seeing here at 350 mission, that represents an important milestone in the fulfillment of that transit center vision. as most of you know, kilroy has been the most active investor in san francisco these days and bay area over the last few years and we've done so because we believe in this city and we've also done so because we have immense confidence in mayor lee. it's no coincidence that under mayor lee and his administration that we've seen such technology growth,

employment and vitality in this city. we've seen that here through incubation and more importantly at this particular juncture we are attracting companies from silicone valley and the entire world to be a must be location for companies that want to compete globally. it's under the mayor's watch in my view that has seen silicone valley the highest tech nation in the world. so we at kilroy we fully agree and support the mayor's approach and he's creative in incredible effectiveness in leaded the country. he's succeeded in instilling the very highest level of industrial confidence and instrumental in attracting

the world leading accommodation like work force.com and he's doing everything to ensure this city is a place to work and live. here at kilroy we worked really hard to make 350 mission an important milestone in its progress. we do that by trying to provide a stimulating place to work and in addition to the landscape and something that is leading edge and sustainability. we are honored to mark it's beginning and particularly happy that mayor ed lee can join us today. he's been a fantastic support of this project and the principles that have inspired it. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the honorable mayor ed lee. >> thank you. it's my pleasure to join john kilroy from sales force to present this

opportunity for a very shortly, i think it's early 2015 that we are going to see the actual address of 350. some of you were trying hard, where is that address when we were trying to locate this place. we are going to be soon to see it. it's on a fast track for good reason. sales force is growing. it's an exciting company. i have to thank, i know --elli mentioned but i want to thank all of you who have been involved, the planning department, everybody working with the city is finding that rhythm of what it means in this city. it means a series of attitudes about the future vision of this city and we have two companies who are working together. kilroy royalty and sales force that share that exact sentiment

about investing in our city for all the right reasons. just go years ago ground broke the transit center. the feeling at that time it was kind of a little bet that we would make that perhaps this region if not the state of california was going to reinvest in our urban centers. we have taken a little risk at the time to suggest that our future work force, our reason, would see the urban light is where we want to be, the culture, the arts, are supported by some great art in the world and created by developers who have a vision that this is a place to have fun, live in and work everyday. with the vision that john kilroy had with his incredible investment. just in three

years, it's sparking over $2 billion in investments in our city. now with sales force who has not only been a great employer, but they represent the cutting edge of technology in computing. there is so much discussion about where this idea is going, but i know the future of technology is invested in. the cloud, we all know that and we know the greatest companies are there to support this. well, in addition to being great employers and having great vision, i want to thank kilroy and sales force for also being great attribute -- contributors to our society. they are contribute to go --

contribute -ing to make our city great. it's not just doing a great process, it's also sharing the vision that we are participating in building a great society and you should see more and more of the philanthropic goals. this is what makes me happy not only to be here because even though we are within a half mile of 300,000 jobs from a half mile of this center, we know this is job creating, but we also know the people who work here want a great city to be in and want to contribute to a quality of life and build the great events program and where there is a gap, where people are struggling, you have benny hang

with his wife to contribute to great hospitals, special programs and help me in education. this is what kilroy and benny hop do to be great leaders in our city. it's fun for all the right reasons. look at building, you see engineering suggesting that they can building a lead platinum building in the center of our town and continue as i go to other countries, i can brag about, not necessarily the 27 cranes that are up because some of the other countries have more cranes that we do. but we can brag about them. that they are the state of the art. they are going to be the greenest building here and that's going to continue our leadership in providing the

greatest greenest buildings. it's the highest standard that you can get and to have everybody focused on that, i think the employers will find this to be a wonderful welcome. i'm celebrating this not only for the jobs, not just economics but the quality of lie -- life we all want to have in this city. now i want to support this. i'm excited that we see another building in the kilroy fashion. we always joke because i'm a big motion picture film. kill roy was here and will always continue to be here after designing and emphasizing the quality of life as we invite more people to work and live and stay in this wonderful city. it is my pleasure to help turn the spade here, but to celebrate everybody's participation in single that our transit

corridor is going to be the center of wonderful employment, but also wonderful buildings and wonderful tenant and i can't thank them enough. great citizens, all joining together, remarkable city, this is what makes investor confidence grow and continue. thank you very much. [ applause ] thank you, mayor. outstanding comments. you spoke about sales force and we have a very important member of sales force with us today. it's what the city wants and needs and the fastest growing software company in the world with 26

offices in 26 countries and operates support in 20 different languages and has received numerous well deserved award for it's most innovative companies and best companies to work for and with respect to commitment and community, the company was named service leader of the year award. they have donated over $30 million in grants and thousands of hours in community service and george himself is enormously talented and recognized around the world for the future of computing and he too has received many awards and preferably named -- best award. so please welcome george come up and say a few words. ladies

and gentlemen, please welcome george. [ applause ] >> thank you, it's a great pleasure and honor to be here today representing sales force.com. today is a tremendous day for sales force and san francisco. i want to thank mayor lee and the city for supporting local businesses and development which allows companies like ours to stay and truly thrive in the city of san francisco which is great to have. i would like to thank kilroy for their commitment in san francisco and for really setting the standard for cutting edge work and environment in this mission building. i would like to thank many who are here today that made this possible for their hard work and dedication. you know sales force.com started in

1999 in a department on hill. companies are able to access software for the power of cloud computing. today that simple vision is now a billion dollar company with many employers here in san francisco. making us the largest employer in the city. today we have already more than 800 thousand square feet in san francisco and we expect 1.8 million square feet by 2016. that is tremendously exciting for us. we continue to grow and higher the talents that this city brings and enable and people that want to

join our mission and are passionate about not what we are just doing about technology but our broader things and -- san francisco stands for power and passion and the need that makes technology go. we are powered with the community and leadership and other departments that share our vision for the future. also as the mayor mentioned we are extremely passionate about giving back to the city. right from the beginning we had a one one model from the beginning. that's the one percent equity and one percent of our product giving back to the community in

the form of free donation to non-profit and we've given $40 million in grants and 445,000 volunteer hours and today as i travel around the world i meet many of our 18,000 non-profits to manage their organizations. now, this tremendous 350 mission building will be a key addition to the downtown san francisco campus. we couldn't be more excited about the building. 450,000 skweert -- square feet. it has led digital media campus. it sits here in the heart of technology here in san francisco with tremendous

proximity to the bart center. there is never been a more exciting time of technology in this city as the mayor mentioned we are really starting to see now the energy of innovation and technology move from silicone valley right here in san francisco. today the city is full of start ups, we are surrounded by start ups and thanks to the mayor, our industry is thriving. our employees are thrilled to be here, i'm thrilled to be here, thank you to the community and thanks to everybody that is here today. thanks very much. [ applause ]

>> thanks george and now i have the pleasure to present john kilroy which i have done many times and you would think i have it down but i have so many things to say about it and it changes every time. i have had the chance to work with many ceo's and he's the best in my mind. john is a real estater. if he wasn't in real estate. he would be a tech entrepreneur himself, he's extremely in inquisitive and starting at the forefront of emerging ideas and shapes the way we stay in the world. he's a theoretical thinker and being firmly grounded. he understand real estate and nuts and bolts from the ground up and anywhere in between better than anyone in this industry. my view is that

the best leaders lead by example and john does that. he consistently shows we are very fortunate at the company here because he consistently shows and leads us to what it takes to succeed through hard work and commitment and thoughtfulness and integrity and john is demanding by himself. he does make sure and we enjoy it that we are all committed particular to our team and customers like sales force.com. i'm positive that 350 mission couldn't have come together without john and without his ability and determination to move the project forward and at the same time bringing everybody along with him. it is my pleasure to introduce him now. please welcome john kilroy, president and ceo of kilroy realty

corporation. >> i'm not going to say a lot about the building. i think that's been covered. it's great to see everybody here this morning. mr. mayor, you said it well. i'm going to say it again. it's an absolute joy to see you every week at a ground breaking whether it's for a building or hospital or school. he told me recently, we had breakfast and he said that he's adopted the school system. i think the middle school system. i have never seen such a dynamic individuals and i have done business in a lot of cities. one thing i want to ask the mayor is when he's done with this city i would like to take him other places because they need him. he made the comment that maybe